You might see these around town as well, usually written on cardboard signs with a black marker, soliciting "trainees needed for real estate investor" or some v

You might see these around town as well, usually written on cardboard signs with a black marker, soliciting "trainees needed for real estate investor" or some variant of the make-money-from-home-and-get-rich scheme. Step 1 is always the same-- pay me $1K for a "startup kit," then find two other suckers and get them to pay you $1K for their own. Just the same, you can't read a travel blog without finding ads for TravelBlogSuccess on it. "Travel the world, write about it and get paid! Get super secret access to our exclusive message board! Just pay us $400, then we'll give you a small cut for any additional suckers you recruit." There are no end of rubes desperate enough to leave their office job to join a pyramid scheme I suppose.